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Examples Of Fret-cutting And Wood-carving. By J. E....

(Marcus Ward.)—Undoubtedly this work, especially that part of it which is devoted to carving, will be of great help to the professional carver, but to the amateur the examples......

Artist Or Amateur ; Or, The Surface Of Life. By

Mrs. Caddy. 3 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—Elma Deane is a young lady of strong artistic tastes, which seem, before their work is subjected to practical tests, to amount to genius.......

Thomas Brown's Will. By Adolphus Pohl. 3 Vols. (tinsley...

novel might have been called " Thomas Brown's Will and Tudor Brown's Bill,". and so acquired the attraction of rhyme. More than seven hundred pages of somewhat close print are......

Servetus And Calvin. By R. Willis, M.d. (henry S. King

and Co.)—This is a very interesting and valuable monograph on what the author rightly describes as an "important epoch in the early history of the Reforma- tion." Servotus was a......

Current Literature.

The Wise Alen of Greece, in a Series of Dramatic Dialogues. By John Stuart Blackie. (Macmillan.)—" I have attempted," says Pro- fessor Blackie, in his preface, " to give the......